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The KGB: A Global Terrorist Agency

March 11, 2018/in Commentary, Policy, Politics/by Simona Pipko

America faces an existential threat from the “Axis of Evil” run by Russia. While the social media is boiling in destructive activities against Trump and his children in Washington D.C., f rom his podium in Moscow, Putin announced on March 1, 2018 that Russia has developed an “unstoppable” nuclear cruise missile that can hit any target on the globe — and cannot be stopped by any missile interception system currently in use. He also showed a simulation of a Nuke Attack on Florida, saying: “Russia remained a nuclear power, but no one wanted to listen to us. Listen to us now.”

Putin’s speech reminded me of the speeches of two other leaders: Hitler’s in 1945 and Andropov’s in 1982. Both had threatened the world with a new nuclear force and both were aimed at domestic consumption. Putin’s talk about a new Cold War reminded me also of the time of the Warsaw Military Pact in Eastern Europe under the complete Russian dominance, after WW II. Today, it is a dreadful repetition of history—Putin playing a geopolitical chess-game. To interpret this game correctly the awareness of his “Axis of Evil” and knowledge of the Russian Intelligence which is running it, is imperative.

I have been writing about an ongoing WW III waged by the KGB against Western civilization and its capitalist economic system for the last thirty years. Due to our erroneous foreign policy, the United States is in fact already in the middle of the war — even if it’s only just starting to realize it. Better late than never. We had given TIME to the Russian Intel to establish and complete the “Axis of Evil,” which today in 2018 consists of North Korea, China, Iran, Syria, Venezuela,

Turkey, and Islamic terror groups including Palestinians. All of them are run and coordinated by Russia.

I began writing about Russia and its Intelligence agency the KGB, as soon as my English allowed me, approximately thirty year ago. Today this agency’s name is the FSB, yet I continue writing and calling it the KGB for many reasons; the main one is that at the time I was a Soviet defense attorney the agency name was the

KGB. Under eight different names the Russian Intel was practicing the same most nefarious, brutal, and unspeakable modus operandi, sponsoring its satellites with arms, weaponry, nuclear, chemical and biological WMD. Be ready for a new technology provided by Russia to the “Axis of Evil” today …

Raoul Wallenberg and His Murderers

Passport photograph of Raoul Wallenberg. Sweden, June 1944. — US Holocaust Memorial Museum

I believe that history is the Mother of all sciences. Awareness of the past can prevent a lot of troubles in the present and solve many problems in the future. So from the past, do you know the name of Raoul Wallenberg? Don’t be ashamed if you don’t; none of my students in the New York University had known the man. To know the Russian Intel, I have to go to history to show you the major role of the Soviet military intelligence in WWII, and the illegal methods implemented by them.

So, have you ever heard the name Raoul Wallenberg? He was a real hero during WWII—he had saved thousands of Jews and people of other religions from the Nazis in Hungary. A famous Swede, he had been working under the noses of Nazis in the Swedish Embassy in Budapest and other cities helping Jewish people to escape. His activities cannot be called anything other than heroic. The entire world was grateful to him for his courage and bravery. However, as soon as the Soviet Army entered Budapest in 1944, Raoul Wallenberg disappeared from the face of the earth! He was kidnapped by the Soviet intelligence. For many years nobody knew his fate.

Immigrating to the U.S. in 1981, by chance I came upon material explaining at last where and how Raoul Wallenberg died. And this is another story connecting us again with the Soviet Intelligence. In 1946, the man named Victor Abakumov was appointed head of the Ministry for State Security—the MGB, a precursor of the

KGB. “Abakumov was a notoriously brutal Chekist who tortured people with his own hands.” PWHCE. He had worked under the general supervision of Beria.

After Stalin’s death in March 1953, Beria was overthrown; Abakumov was charged and tried for his role in the case known as the Leningrad Affair and executed in December 1954.

I have read a protocol of his interrogation and there he mentioned Raoul Wallenberg. Abakumov alleged that Raoul Wallenberg died of a heart attack in A small footnote stressed by Abakumov: The NKVD, MGB, and KGB had perfected the injections, which were provoking heart attacks. I had known about KGB’s secret laboratory before. What I did not know was that the secret laboratory had the ability to develop different substances, which when injected were bringing desirable results for the KGB. In the case of Raoul Wallenberg it was a heart attack—the KGB had murdered Raoul Wallenberg by their usual criminal way…

This story illustrates the ugly face of Russia today, run by the heirs of the Checka and KGB, the contemporary FSB.

I have another point as well. Telling you the story of Raoul Wallenberg, I thought that he was the first victim of modern kidnapping. I was wrong. Reading Mao: The Unknown Story, I found that the son of Chiang-Kai-shek was kidnapped by the Soviets a decade earlier and lived in the Soviet Union. Maybe that was the reason Chiang-Kai-shek could not break up with the Soviets and lost his country to the Communists in the end.

To illustrate modern kidnapping, I will give you another horrific event. The Italian Prime Minister Aldo Morro was kidnapped by the Italian Red Brigades and later he was assassinated. The Red Brigades had been the military force of the Italian Communist Party. For your information 20 percent of the Italian police were Communists in the 1970s. I hope the issue of modern kidnapping, killing, and their origin is clear to you. Those practices and others show you the nature and essence of Russian Intelligence.

A Human Hand, Intent, and the Ideology of Soviet Fascism

I hope those examples have opened your eyes and allowed me to bring you to the present series of shootings in our country. As you know, I came from a socialist country—the entire population of the Soviet Union had been disarmed, let alone guns, even a hunting knife was forbidden. As a former defense attorney, I can testify to the following: that law forbidding weapons did not stop crimes like murders and serious injuries–bad people continued using guns, knives, basketball bits, and …iron pans, like my client, who killed her husband by an iron pan. See pp. 226-230 Baltic Winds: Testimony of the Soviet Attorney, Xlibris, 2002

Those listed above- guns, knives, basketball bits, and iron pans- are inanimate objects, they can’t move, they don’t have will or intent. It is a human hand that moves them according to the individual’s will, and his or her motivation. The growing national debates on guns and mental illness have a very painful history. I started writing about both many years ago, in September 2002, and describing Soviet fascism as the aggressor, I gave a then current example at the time:

“The attempt to assassinate Pope John Paul II by using surrogate Bulgarians and a mentally sick Turkish man remind me of another Stalin technique or device: using mentally ill and unstable individuals in assassinations. Hasn’t history repeated itself not only in Russia, but on our soil as well? Do you remember killings in Los Angeles, Washington DC, and other places committed by mentally ill people?

Isn’t it a strange coincidence again? No, the tragedy of our lives is unawareness.

We are at war, in WWIII for many decades now. We have been systematically targeted on different fronts and locations. Alas, my beloved America has not recognized it yet, the prior knowledge of Stalinism is lacking in American society… Yet, I can’t afford to stop unmasking Soviet Fascism—it is time to do or die. “The Russian Factor: From Cold War to Global Terrorism, by S. Pipko, Xliris, p. 220

Do you also remember Stalin’s list of leaders to be assassinated? For your information, dozens of foreign and domestic leaders have been assassinated by the order of the KGB’s Chairman Yuri Andropov. In my books and columns, I gave you a detailed description of Chairman Andropov. President Putin is the student of Chairman Yuri Andropov. I hope that the Free World will finally seriously approach the study of Soviet Fascism and its leaders to stop the agony in the world. Just look at the ugly ongoing war against the leaders of Western civilization, the Trump and Netanyahu families—it is Soviet fascism in action, fighting for survival. Obama and Putin mortally hate Trump and Netanyahu. Putin never helped Trump to win, it is Leftist propaganda Soviet style, to cover-up the treason committed by them.

The KGB in America

Today, in 2018 the agony of the world is still going on and it came to America by the Obama/Putin Alliance during Obama’s presidency. The debate on guns and mental illness is a part of the Obama/Putin Alliance, yet no one has connected the horrifying issue of attacking our children to the “Axis of Evil,” run by the Russian KGB Government. I would. The injection that murdered Raoul Wallenberg can be repeated with different substances desired by the KGB shooting in an ampule by a soundless gun. In this case it is the substance to worsen, aggravate, and exacerbate the psychological state of the killers in Columbine, Sandy Hooks, and many other places… Russian Intel, especially the KGB is a syndicate of professional snipers, killers, and murderers. Why the Democrats are pushing for gun-control, is because they are socialists aimed at disarming Americans, like Stalin, Andropov, and Putin did in Russia and Hitler in Germany—the reason I am writing about Soviet fascism today…

Our Government didn’t act on 45 tips, red flag warnings to prevent the tragedy of Valentine Day in Florida. You now know that the KGB works much better in our space of Facebook, Twitter, and using any opportunities to kill, harm, undermine, and destroy the system of the American Republic left to us by our Founding Fathers.

The gun control debate was a central focus of CPAC this year. I completely agree with Judge Pirro and her emotional speech there: “I own guns because it’s my right,” she explained. “And you’re not going to take it away. It is a natural right confirmed by the very people who founded this nation.” She gave the naked truth to the audience and the audience reacted accordingly with real enthusiasm.

The rally against Trump in New York City was organized by the KGB and the circumstances are helping the KGB to do its dirty dealings in America. Our DOJ and FBI are politicized and paralyzed. The Attorney General is surrounded by

Obama’s holdovers in the DOJ, who are keeping him in dark to undermine the Trump administration, and give more time to the KGB to organize and facilitate another 9/11, In addition to that, the AG is a man with no clue of the war waged against us by the Russian Intel in cahoots with some Democrats and 184 Leftist organizations subsidized by George Soros and other traitors in America. Those exact combined forces are fighting Trump today and I am afraid that Russia is running this plot as well—this is Soviet fascism in action on our soil.

The Anti-Trump crowd is well organized and run by the Deep State (Obama/Putin Alliance.) Do you remember the election campaign of 2016? There were several Trump rallies troubled by violent forces of the Democrat Party, one rally was even cancelled to prevent the violence. Moreover, the Democrats paid $150 to every thug participating in the violence. Here is the evidence of how it happened:

“Two top Democratic strategists exited the presidential campaign after explosive undercover videos showed them discussing voter fraud and their roles in planting paid agitators at campaign events for Republican candidate Donald Trump. Robert Creamer, founder of Democracy Advocates and the husband of Rep. Janice D. Schakowsky, Illinois Democrat, stepped down from the campaign Tuesday, a day after Scott Foval was fired from his post as national field director of Americans United for Change. Democratic heads roll after the video shows agitators planted at Trump rallies. “Democratic heads roll after video shows agitators planted at Trump rallies”, By Valerie Richardson – The Washington Times – Tuesday, October 18, 2016.

That was two years ago, an application of force to achieve a political result—a typical element of the ideology of Soviet fascism. Considering the Obama/Putin Alliance, which I have been writing about for the last nine years, I think that the appointment of Special Counsel, Robert Muller was a continuation of the same policy of obstruction, directed against the Trump administration and Republicans. Moreover, behind all of that, I see the deep conspiracy organized by the KGB in the very beginning:

“I think we now know that the Mueller investigation is illegitimate and corrupt,”

Fox legal analyst Gregg Jarrett said on Sean Hannity’s self-titled show. Jarrett continued:

“Mueller has been using the FBI as a political weapon, and the FBI has become America’s secret police: secret surveillance, wire-tapping, intimidation, harassment, and threats — it’s like the old KGB that comes for you in the dark of the night, banging through your door. Ask Paul Manafort. They came for him and broke through his front door.”

It was only one man, Gregg Jarrett, who recalled the methods of the old KGB. Perhaps, he read my books or columns—I am comparing the Democrats’ and Leftists’ methods of operations with the KGB’s pretty often. Today, I see all elements of Soviet fascism aimed at destroying President Trump by the things that had never happened.

Mysterious Deaths by Suicides or the Soviet Medicine

The KGB has a variety of methods and tricks to harm, injure, or kill people.

Mysterious deaths by suicide is one of the events in the arsenal of methods practiced by the evil-KGB. I have already given you an example about this mystery talking about Raoul Wallenberg killed by the “Soviet Medicine” in my book What is Happening to America? pp. 115-117.

I believe that many Republican leaders were killed later by using the same “Soviet medicine.” I believe that Sonny Bono was assassinated—he used to bring a lot of money to the coffers of the Republican Party. Therefore pay attention to snipers; they can use soundless guns with ampules of the “Soviet medicine.” If it is a heart attack, nobody is looking further… I also suspect that Rev. Jerry Falwell was assassinated as well. He was a determined leader of the Conservative movement, the Moral Majority, bringing victory to the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan. The FBI either didn’t know where to look for the criminals, or did not want to look there.

The FBI is also uninformed in terms of the vindictive methods of the KGB targeting the leaders of the opposition. A Jewish spy “Angel” was thrown over a balcony in the center of London. He helped Israel in the 1973 war, providing crucial information. Just apply logic and you will know who the “Angel’s’ enemies are. I have another suspicion as well. The catastrophe of the Space Shuttle in 2003 was not accidental. A member of the team, Ilan Ramon, from Israel was researching the way to change the climate—the subject of the Soviet’s monopoly. Read how the Russians tried to change the climate and about Pluton in The Russian Factor, Xlibris, 2006 pp. 306-308. For decades the FBI failed to expose Soviet Fascism.

Returning to our days, I’d like to recall Justice Antonin Scalia. He was an exceptional human being. The Jurist who paved the direction to our Supreme Court. The circumstances of his death are very suspicious and there was no investigation with knowledge of the “Soviet medicine.” I know that Putin applies his knowledge of chess to geopolitics and he can see 3-4 steps ahead. Maybe the Obama/Putin Alliance knows more about Antonin Scalia’s death? Look at the number of threats to assassinate President Trump! It is prelude to action! I hope that the information I gave you today will help you to interpret correctly the events going on in America and across the globe.

Conclusion: Knowledge is Power

For nine years I have been writing about the Obama/Putin Alliance and in all those years information about my writings has been suppressed by the FBI, which was collaborated and subordinated to the Alliance. The Dossier on Trump was cooked and manufactured by The KGB, I am sure of it. So, my conclusion is the following: there are two types of people committing betrayals in America: those who do not like the system established by our Founding Fathers– they are currently collaborating with the KGB to destroy America, and those politicians who haven’t a clue about the KGB, hence becoming their accomplices.

Trump alone is showing a multi-faceted resistance to that war waged by the Democrats of Obama/Putin Alliance. He does not have a lot of help to him from other Republicans. Perhaps, they never read my books and columns, suppressed by the FBI. Yes, America faces an existential threat from the “Axis of Evil” run by

Russia. Vladimir Putin will be the Russian President for another six years. We should be ready for another attack a-la 9/11. I believe it is now in the process of being developed at the beneficial and appropriate time for the KGB, while the social media, Democrats, Leftists, and traitors are boiling in destructive activities against the Trump and Netanyahu families… Just look around…

You can doubt what I have written, but it is probable, because Obama/Putin Alliance is not the first collaboration with the KGB. The Democrats have been selling our national security for decades. Barack Obama is looking for global foundation now to offer himself. Stay tune and read my columns and books: www.Amazon.com.

Giving you the portraits and descriptions of the two Chairmen of the KGB in my column of January 26, 2018, I had promised to expose Andropov’s “Golden Goose.” Sorry, I’ll do it in the next column. Today is an important day in the history of the world: sixty five years ago, on March 5, 1953 died, the founder of Soviet fascism—Joseph Stalin. To successfully fight the war he had started, awareness of Stalin’s Doctrine is imperative. The Doctrine of One World Government under the Kremlin Rule is alive and well. It is the foundation of an ongoing war against Western civilization today…

I’d like to complete my column with a poem by my friend. He is now a mature man, yet when he was 15 he read and understood the importance of Ayn Rand’s brilliant novels. Here is his poem The One-Sided War:

One-Sided War

There’s a war going on
And it’s not science fiction
It’s controlled from Moscow
To purposely cause friction

By murder, seduction
Fraud and infiltration
By blaming, destruction
Political correctness and agitation

Don’t believe their socialist lies
They’re being spread by Russian spies
And the Democrat party is not your friend
Wake up America, before it’s the end

Life and liberty
Are worth fighting for
Don’t let Putin win
This one-sided war

Remember your values
What once made us great
You’ve been duped into thinking
It’s Trump you should hate

But he’s the one man
Who can stand up to Putin
So give him your backing
Before there’s more shootin’

To be continue at drrichswier.com/author/spipko/.

Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state by Victor Sharpe [Book Review]

March 11, 2018/in Commentary, Policy, Politics/by Joan Swirsky

The word Politicide was first coined by Abba Eban––Israel’s foreign minister in 1967––to describe the attempted murder of the sovereign, independent State of Israel by enemies both within and outside of the fledgling state.

When Victor Sharpe first read the word, he told me how it resonated in “the deepest parts of my heart and soul.”

A passionate student of Jewish history––as well as a prolific writer on contemporary Jewish and geopolitical issues––Sharpe was mobilized into action, believing that his determination to protect and defend Israel and to illuminate the wider public about the tiny state’s chronically imperiled status, demanded that he write a book about…Politicide!

His first Politicide book was published in 2006, with a second book following in 2009, and a third book in 2011. Now he has written his fourth opus: Politicide: The attempted murder of the Jewish state.

In this riveting volume, Sharpe describes in painful detail the annihilating attacks upon the ancient Jewish homeland by the immensely powerful Assyrian, Babylonian, Greek and Roman empires, which, significantly, no longer exist.

He also describes the inexpressible suffering endured by the stateless Jews throughout their 2,000 years of exile in the diaspora, during the Crusades and the Inquisition, and through the cruel expulsion of Jews from various countries including England, Spain and Portugal, the bleak pogroms in Poland and Russia, and to the worst crime in human history, the genocide during the 1940s of six-million Jews in Hitler’s German-occupied Europe.

But to counter this painful history, Sharpe describes in vivid detail the exceptional history of Jewish life from its beginning with Abraham the first Jew––the Holy Convert––who left his idol-making father after discovering the existence of the one-and-only God, thus establishing monotheism for the entire world.

He describes how Abraham and his wife Sarah, along with Isaac and Rebecca and Jacob and Leah and Rachel, became the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish People in the eternal and Covenanted Land of Israel to which God brought them.

And finally, Sharpe tells the story of the miniscule but powerful 14-million Jews who now exist––half of them in the miraculous and flourishing State of Israel––in a world of seven-and-a-half billion people, including over a billion Christians and over a billion Muslims.

On November 29, 1947, the United Nations voted on Resolution 181 to declare the establishment of a Jewish State in the land to be known as Israel. Ironic, yes, that the U.N. today is a virtual cesspool of virulent anti-Semitism run by tin-pot dictators and rancid racists.

On May 14, 1948, the man who would become the first Prime Minister of Israel, David Ben-Gurion, who was then the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. On that very day, U.S. President Harry S. Truman recognized the new nation!

On December 6, 2017, U.S. President Donald J. Trump proclaimed the following:

“In 1995, Congress adopted the Jerusalem Embassy Act, urging the federal government to relocate the American embassy to Jerusalem and to recognize that that city…is Israel’s capital. This act passed Congress by an overwhelming bipartisan majority and was reaffirmed by a unanimous vote of the Senate only six months ago. Yet, for over 20 years, every previous American president has exercised the law’s waiver, refusing to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem or to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital city.

“Therefore, I have determined that it is time to officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Israel is a sovereign nation with the right like every other sovereign nation to determine its own capital…”

There is even talk that as Israel celebrates its 70^th anniversary as a sovereign state this coming May, the American president may be the most honored guest in attendance.

And yet, in the mere 70 years since Israel’s establishment, a resurgence of anti-Semitism is sweeping the globe in what can only be described as a pandemic. This is not surprising for the European countries where it once flourished or for the Muslim countries where their “holy” book mandates the death of all infidels, Jews particularly.

But it is very disheartening that this obsessive Jew hatred is also rampant in the hallowed halls of the United States Congress, where, according to American Thinker’s Thomas Lifson, no less than seven Democrats embrace the Hitler-admiring racist “Reverend” Louis Farrakhan, whose recent remarks include that “the powerful Jews are my enemy.”

All this makes Victor Sharpe’s book downright urgent for readers who are interested in historical facts and not inflammatory and hateful rhetoric. Perhaps by serendipity, it is also the ideal primer for students in the not-so-hallowed halls of American academia––both Jewish and non-Jewish youth alike––whose leftist, anti-Semitic professors expose them to the obscene Boycott-Divest-Sanction movement to destroy Israel and other malevolent anti-Israel indoctrination.

In short, this is a terrific, illuminating, important book that readers will learn from, share with their friends, and cherish for its richness.

Dick’s, Wal-Mart, L.L. Bean and Others Enact Discriminatory Policies in Response to Gun Control Tantrum

March 10, 2018/in Commentary, Culture War, Gun Rights, Policy, Politics/by NRA Institute for Legislative Action

In what appears to be a bid to alienate a large swath of the American public in order to appease anti-gun extremists, last week Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO and Chairman Ed Stack issued an open letter in which he announced several changes to the company’s firearms sales policies. According to the missive, Dick’s will no longer sell some configurations of commonly-owned semi-automatic rifles and certain capacity magazines. The company will also refuse to sell firearms to adults ages 18 to 20.

These new policies will also cover Field & Stream stores, which are a Dick’s subsidiary that focuses primarily on outdoor recreation. Gun rights supporters should know that Field & Stream stores have no relation to the publication of the same name. Dick’s also owns Golf Galaxy.

In the days following Stack’s letter, Wal-Mart, Kroger-owned Fred Meyer, and L.L. Bean announced that they would also refuse to recognize the Second Amendment rights of adults ages 18 to 20. Wal-Mart took the additional step of purging nonlethal products that resemble commonly-owned semi-automatic rifles, such as toys and airsoft guns, from their website.

Rather than serving to protect the nation’s schools from violence, the recent corporate outburst against rifles and firearm purchasers serves to reveal an anti-freedom agenda.

Contrary to the inflammatory language used by those in the anti-gun media, the numbers make clear that the U.S. is not experiencing an epidemic of school shootings. While any school shooting is tragic, research by Northeastern University Professor of Criminology, Law, and Public Policy James Alan Fox found that school shootings have been declining since the 1990s. Further, in an article summarizing his research, Fox rejected the idea that a ban on rifle sales to those ages 18 to 20 could curb mass shootings because such incidents are so rare. Fox explained, “The thing to remember is that these are extremely rare events, and no matter what you can come up with to prevent it, the shooter will have a workaround.”

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reporting data shows that there were 374 murders committed with all types of rifles in 2016. That same year, 656 people were murdered where the perpetrator used only their hands and feet. 1,604 people were murdered with “knives or cutting instruments.” Blunt objects, such as bats or golf clubs, were used to commit 472 murders. There has been no word on whether Field & Stream intends to institute background checks on knife sales, nor whether Golf Galaxy will halt their dangerous practice of selling pitching wedges to young adults over the internet.

That there were 374 murders carried out with rifles in 2016 is tragic, but efforts to combat such a small number of fatalities in a nation of more than 320 million by further restricting rifles are destined to fail. The relatively small number of crimes perpetrated with rifles is one of the reasons why federally-funded researchers have repeatedly determined that the 1994 Dianne Feinstein semi-auto rifle and magazine ban did not have an appreciable effect on violent crime.

A 1997 Department of Justice-funded study from the Urban Institute, titled, “Impact Evaluation of the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act of 1994,” admitted, “At best, the assault weapons ban can have only a limited effect on total gun murders, because the banned weapons and magazines were never involved in more than a modest fraction of all gun murders.”

A follow-up study published in 2004 on the eve of the sunset of the semi-auto ban, titled, “An Updated Assessment of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban: Impacts on Gun Markets and Gun Violence, 1994-2003,” came to a similar conclusion. The researchers noted, “the ban’s impact on gun violence is likely to be small at best, and perhaps too small for reliable measurement.” The study also made clear that “estimates consistently show that AWs [commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms] are used in a small fraction of gun crimes.”

A 2013 Department of Justice memorandum reiterated that commonly-owned semi-automatic rifles are rarely used in crime and that further restricting their sale would be futile. The memo acknowledged, “a complete elimination of assault weapons would not have a large impact on gun homicides.” The document went on to explain, “Since assault weapons are not a major contributor to US gun homicide and the existing stock of guns is large, an assault weapon ban is unlikely to have an impact on gun violence.” The survey also noted that restrictions on the sale of standard-capacity magazines would be fruitless unless coupled with a massive confiscation effort.

Aside from being poor policy, in some circumstances the new corporate restrictions may violate state and local anti-discrimination laws. As First and Second Amendment scholar and UCLA Law Professor Eugene Volokh pointed out in a recent blog post, certain state and local governments have enacted statutes and ordinances that bar discrimination in retail sales involving adults ages 18 to 20.

Dick’s’ corporate counsel doesn’t seem to have considered this eventuality, even though it could affect business in their home state of Pennsylvania. Section 953 of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act states,

The opportunity for an individual to obtain employment for which he is qualified, and to obtain all the accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any public accommodation and of any housing accommodation and commercial property without discrimination because of race, color, familial status, religious creed, ancestry, handicap or disability, age, sex, national origin, the use of a guide or support animal because of the blindness, deafness or physical handicap of the user or because the user is a handler or trainer of support or guide animals is hereby recognized as and declared to be a civil right which shall be enforceable as set forth in this act.

The act goes on to define “public accommodation” to include “retail stores and establishments.”

Fred Meyer’s policy could also face a challenge in their home state of Oregon. Section 659A.403(1) of the Oregon Revised Statutes makes clear,

all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities and privileges of any place of public accommodation, without any distinction, discrimination or restriction on account of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status or age if the individual is of age, as described in this section, or older.

The sale of alcohol and marijuana are specifically exempted from this section, but there is no such exemption for the sale of firearms.

Astute gun rights supporters will remember that this is not the first time Dick’s has turned their back on gun owners. Back in 2012, Dick’s made headlines when it responded to the shooting in Newtown, Conn. by removing AR-15s from its stores. In doing so, Dick’s reneged on a deal with AR-15 manufacturer Troy Industries to supply the sporting goods chain with rifles. Suggesting that their position on the topic was the product of political posturing rather than actual conviction, when Dick’s launched its Field & Stream brand stores the company made sure to stock them with AR-15s.

Further, gun owners who value their privacy have long-avoided purchasing firearms at Wal-Mart. In 2008, Wal-Mart collaborated with billionaire Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group Mayors Against Illegal Guns to more thoroughly track retail gun sales. As part of the effort, Wal-Mart agreed to maintain a video record of all firearms transactions within their stores. Some viewed the changes as an attempt to curry favor with then-New York City Mayor Bloomberg in order to improve the company’s chances of opening a store in Gotham.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimated that in 2017 the firearms and ammunition industry accounted for $51.3 billion in total economic activity. With 100 million gun owners nationwide, the shooting sports are big business and the industry’s customers can exert a significant amount of influence when they make decisions regarding their firearms and ammunition purchases and their buying habits more generally. Moreover, retailers should be aware that firearms consumers exhibit a loyalty and political awareness uncommon to many industries – a trait born out of necessity. Let there be no doubt that America’s gun owners will remember the corporations that sought to scapegoat them during a moment of tragedy.

Planned Profiting: Abortion Biz Rakes in Taxpayer Cash

March 9, 2018/in Commentary, Culture War, Healthcare, Taxes, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Family Research Council

Breaking the law doesn’t help your chances for earning federal dollars — but apparently, it doesn’t hurt them either! If there’s one thing Planned Parenthood’s learned over the last few years, it’s that crime does pay. A lot, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). Despite piles of evidence (some of it from the group’s own mouth) that Cecile Richards’s group was illegally selling baby body parts (after performing equally illegal late-term abortions), a new report shows the wrongdoing hasn’t made the slightest dent in its taxpayer-funded gravy train — at least on the federal level.On the contrary, GAO officials found, being referred for criminal prosecution didn’t result in so much as a financial blip for Richards and company.

Between 2013-15, Planned Parenthood, its international affiliates, and Marie Stopes International dug deep into taxpayers’ pockets, banking a whopping $1.5 billion from federal and state programs like Medicaid, Medicare, Title X, and CHIP.

But even more amazingly, four of the five Planned Parenthood locations that raked in the most money are the same ones under investigation by the FBI! Planned Parenthood offices in Mar Monte ($229 million), Los Angeles ($106 million), Pacific Southwest ($105 million), and Northern California ($104 million).The news disgusted a number of House conservatives, many of whom were part of the select panel a couple of years later that referred the organization to the Justice Department. Obviously, it’s offensive that taxpayers are forced to fund anyone that performs abortion — but we certainly shouldn’t fund the groups who break the law doing it! Live Action president Lila Rose can’t understand why Democrats don’t agree.

“This should not be a partisan issue. Even those politicians who support abortion should be honest enough to admit that taxpayers shouldn’t be funding an organization embroiled in such barbaric and likely criminal acts – especially when there are federally-qualified health centers where the money could be redirected to help more people. DaVinci Biosciences, one of Planned Parenthood’s partners in the baby organ trade, has already admitted to breaking federal law.”

Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.), who, along with fellow Tennessean Marsha Blackburn (R) has been leading the fight to defund Planned Parenthood, is absolutely sickened by this betrayal of taxpayers’ trust. “Industry giants like Planned Parenthood perform more than 320,000 abortions every year, and this GAO report exposes that these atrocities are done at the expense of taxpayers…. Abortion is not family planning,” she added. “Abortion is family destruction, and the fact that $1.5 billion in taxpayer dollars is funneled to this industry is sickening. The American people deserve better.”

Most agree. Only 36 percent of the country thinks taxpayers should be forced to foot the bill for abortion. But I’m willing to bet that even they wouldn’t approve of sending that money to an organization that’s believed to have broken a long list of federal and state laws.

As for Republicans, 120 asked GAO to run the numbers, this report ought to light another fire under Congress to ramp up its push to defund Planned Parenthood. If Democrats want to stop the GOP, let them stand in front of voters and own it. President Trump has done what he can internationally and through executive order. He needs the House and Senate to do the rest.

Tony Perkins’ Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.

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Women Who Make History: Are You One of Them?

March 6, 2018/in Commentary, Culture War/by Marianne Clyde

Hey girls! You are never going to change the world by just sitting down and shutting up. Historian, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, reminded us of this when she said, “Well-behaved women seldom make history.” The same sentiment is repeated in the great little book, Nice Girls Don’t Change the World by Lynne Hybels, co-founder of Willow Creek Church near Chicago.

March has been designated as Women’s history month. As I look over the many lists of famous women in history, while they all had widely differing personalities, religious leanings, and political affiliations, one thing that they had in common was the ability to dream, strong beliefs and tenacity.

They broke through molds, glass ceilings and the expectations of others.

There is not one dream or direction or focus of interest that is more valuable than any other. We are created to be unique. We are constantly battling against a society and culture that says, “Fit in,” “Look like everyone else,” “Make sure everyone agrees with you before you open your mouth.” We are even told to make sure you are right before you launch out, because you don’t want to fail or to appear foolish. I have never been able to figure out why on earth we give permission to other people, who are just as insecure as we are, quite possibly more so, who have no idea where we have been or why we think the way we do, to judge our ideas and actions as being acceptable or not. You know that’s crazy, right?

The problem is that same voice, that same belief, that same thought process is loudly raging all around us and is difficult to ignore. However, there are many women throughout history that have heard that voice and dismissed it, or at least pushed past it in order to live their destiny and change the course of history.

What would have happened if Susan B. Anthony had decided it was just too hard, and the naysayers were just too loud and decided to just sit down and shut up? She spent 60 years of her life fighting for equality and died without having achieved her goal. But we, now, benefit from her tireless persistence.

Anne Frank knew the powers that be, at the time, were just plain wrong. Living in the midst of a culture that was chaotic and hate-filled, she was known through her diaries as having an indomitable spirit filled with hope and joyful expectation, claiming “It’s utterly impossible for me to build my life on a foundation of chaos, suffering and death.” She was all about living your truth and not waiting for permission, or holding back, expecting circumstances to change. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world,”she said.

Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India for four terms warned against rivalry against others in our quest of fulfillment. “To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.” Your only competition is you. Your only detractor that can hold you back is your own collection of thoughts and beliefs.

Coco Chanel, encouraging the differences between us is known to have said, “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” She decided that the fashion had to be changed and followed her vision to do just that, encouraging each of us to be our own genuine, unique self.

Saint Mother Teresa

Mother Theresa saved her world, one person at a time and opposed a culture of indifference and changing family patterns by simply following her call to ministry. She didn’t care what it looked like. And she resisted being bought by big donors. She was never looking for fame or position, just the fulfillment of what she felt called to do.

Called crazy and delusional, Joan of Arc lived her reality, and in so doing, changed the course of French history, and was burned at the stake as a witch because of it. She said, “One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

The first woman to fly across the Atlantic, Amelia Earhart, while also setting many other records, as well said, “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” She encourages us to just make a decision, and move forward from there.

These women came from different times, different religions and nationalities all with a different dream, goal or calling. What they had in common was:

They had a strong belief in their dream or calling.
They did not let opposition stop them.
They refused to be pulled off target by the opinions of others.
They were not distracted by pettiness or discouragement or fear.

They simply kept their eye on their goal. Some of them did not live to see their victory. Some where not validated like they could have been. But each one of them advanced the cause of righteousness, the power and capability of women, and made the world a better place in a diverse and enriching way.

You don’t need anyone’s permission to change the world. Just do what’s in your heart, refusing to be knocked off track by opposition or judgment or opinion or pettiness. Keep your eye on your goal. Don’t allow yourself to be squeezed into a mold that you don’t fit into. Create your own mold and blaze your own trail. The world needs more independent thinkers with focus and determination. We are making history everyday, just by being who we were created to be.

What’s stopping you?

Obama-Era Policies Helped Keep Parkland Shooter Under the Radar. Here’s What Went Wrong.

March 6, 2018/in Commentary, Culture War, Education, Gun Rights, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Signal

One of the most heartbreaking and perhaps infuriating aspects of the Florida school shooting that took 17 lives is just how many red flags there were surrounding the shooter.

The national debate following the shooting has mostly revolved around guns. Much ink has also (rightly) been spilled about the failed leadership of the Broward County Sheriff’s Office in its moment of crisis.

What’s been lost in this discussion are the issues of school safety and discipline. Those issues are highly relevant to what took place in Parkland.

Prior to the mass shooting, Nikolas Cruz was involved in a huge number of incidents on and off campus, numerous calls were made to the police, and the was FBI even involved. He certainly appeared to be a ticking time bomb.

It would seem that somewhere along the way, he should have been stopped before the shooting took place.

But that wasn’t the case.

Max Eden, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, explained in City Journal how an Obama-era Department of Education initiative designed to put an end to the “school to prison pipeline,” combined with local mismanagement, helped allow the shooter to fall through the cracks.

“[I]n 2013, the school board and the sheriff’s office agreed on a new policy to discontinue police referrals for a dozen infractions ranging from drug use to assault,” Eden wrote.

A separate report by RealClearInvestigations found that Broward County was part of a “vanguard of a strategy, adopted by more than 50 other major school districts nationwide, allowing thousands of troubled, often violent, students to commit crimes without legal consequence.”

This was part of a larger Obama administration effort, launched in 2011, to reduce racial disparities in school discipline numbers, according to RealClearInvestigations.

“Students charged with various misdemeanors, including assault, would now be disciplined through participation in ‘healing circles,’ obstacle courses, and other ‘self-esteem building’ exercises,” the report said.

“We must ensure that school discipline is being handled by trained educators, not by law enforcement officers,” said former Secretary of Education John King in 2016. “Some schools are simply turning misbehaving students over to [school resource officers]. This can set students on a path to dropping out or even to prison.”

Florida’s Broward County, which is where the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting took place, was a leader in adopting this new program and was even touted for it by former Education Secretary Arne Duncan.

The number of school arrests dropped dramatically in the years that followed, but that didn’t mean serious crimes weren’t taking place.

The Parkland shooter was involved in a number of alarming incidents, including assault and bringing bullets to campus, for which he was eventually moved to another school.

Yet the police never arrested the shooter or expelled him, which is in part why he passed a federal background check and was able to purchase a firearm.

The red flags swirling around the shooter went unheeded, and it appears that Broward County’s lax policies deserve some of the blame.

Nevertheless, it’s worth noting there have been many problems with “zero tolerance” policies as well, which became common in the 1990s.

These policies, which Congress designed in part to make school campuses gun-free zones, have at times criminalized behavior that was innocuous and that certainly didn’t require police involvement—hence, the stories about students being suspended for chewing a Pop-Tart into the shape of a gun or being arrested for wearing an National Rifle Association shirt.

In dealing with campus policing practices, it’s important not to overreact to problems and thereby create new problems. Zero tolerance policies come with their own complications.

There is no single policy or idea that can solve the school discipline and school shooter problem overnight, but it’s not unreasonable to expect a department to change its practices after such a catastrophic failure as we saw in Parkland last month.

Whether Broward County and the federal government will honestly evaluate their own failures and change policies remains to be seen.

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Kushner Clearance Pales Compared to Ben Rhodes’ Denied Clearance

March 5, 2018/in Commentary, News, Politics/by Rod Thomson

The media is intent on urgently reporting and discussing the importance of the temporarily reduced security clearance of Trump advisor and son-in-law Jared Kushner.

But when Obama Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes was actually denied security clearance in 2008, the media yawned. Actually, it never even reported something this newsworthy and, apparently, if the media doesn’t report it, it doesn’t happen.

Recall that Rhodes was not only a high-level advisor to Obama, but he was the architect of the now-infamous Iran nukes deal involving cases of cash flown on a plane to Tehran while creating a pathway for nukes to the repressive, terrorist, Islamist regime. Further, he was the one who misled Congress and the public on the terms of the agreement.

Yet it was not until January 2017, days before Obama was out of office, that the Washington Free Beacon reported:

Ben Rhodes, a White House deputy national security adviser who led the administration’s efforts to mislead Congress about the terms of the Iran nuclear agreement, is under scrutiny in the wake of disclosures he was declined interim clearance status by the FBI in 2008, when the administration was moving into the White House.

The Washington Times followed up with a report and the Free Beacon did some follow-up stories on the congressional inquiry. Google does not show any mainstream media coverage of this story, even once Congress was looking into it and the issue was fully public.

This context is hugely important. Because people may think that Jared Kushner not getting his security clearance is not only important, but showing a pattern of chaos, disruption and disreputable characters in the White House. But does it? No, at least not when we look in light of what has happened in previous administrations, even if they were not reported or barely reported.

We reported on this problem previously by comparing Trump’s personal peccadillos to presidents of the past, which were barely reported or not reported until historic biographies told the stories.

From JFK’s stream of prostitutes and drugs into the White House far exceeding anything even in Trump’s past, let alone in his White House, to LBJ’s wild racism and infatuation with telling people about his manly package, to Bill Clinton, Trump comes off looking pretty mild. But you wouldn’t know that by consuming only the traditional media because they are covering Trump differently and thereby misleading the American people.

This continually manifests itself in the hysterically funny claim by many Democrats that the Obama administration was the most corruption-free administration in modern American history. This is so easy to debunk — but not if you only get news from the traditional media. Here we report five scandals from the Obama years that could legitimately require a special counsel and that the media had no real interest in pursuing.

This lack of context due to media reporting double standards pops up everywhere.

I was on an ABC panel last night discussing this and other issues with a Florida Democratic Party Chairman and a Tampa Bay Times political correspondent along with the ABC moderator. None of the three of them had heard anything about this Rhodes story. But they knew all about Jared Kushner.

This, of course, goes to the alternate universe that has grown in the wake of the media’s abdication of any journalistic responsibility. Taking sides as the media did clearly during the Obama years, and then did on steroids since Trump’s election, has resulted in two competing narratives of every story out there. This is a prime example and explains why so much on social media appears to be people talking from different planets.

Censorship by Twitter and Facebook using Snopes and other leftist organizations will hardly fix “fake news” in this sense. It will, however magnify the alternate universe paradigm.

And that means that virtually every new eruption from the media on the Trump White House requires the understanding that this may or may not be much of anything. And that requires some truthful context.

EDITORS NOTE: This column originally appeared in The Revolutionary Act. Please visit The Revolutionary Act’s YouTube Channel

DACA Is a Cheap Amnesty Ploy

March 5, 2018/in Commentary, Immigration, Policy, Politics, Regulation, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Signal

Every year, millions of families make the trip to one of Disney’s famous amusement parks. Thousands of parents diligently save to bring their young children on the vacation of a lifetime.

Honeymooning newlyweds stroll the streets of “The Happiest Place on Earth,” snapping pictures with Mickey, Minnie, Donald, and Goofy. Some visitors even pick up a season pass to enjoy this magical place all year round.

But what if there was an easier way to enter Disney World? What if your status as a child under the age of 16 entitled you to a lifetime pass? And what if that pass not only entitled you to free entry but automatic access to every one of Disney’s special VIP perks?

And what if the only condition was that you have a parent carry you into the park? Sound unfair?

Well, that’s exactly what the bipartisan open border club has been telling hardworking Americans they must do when it comes to DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. “Compassion,” they proclaim. “It’s the right thing to do,” the insulated elites exclaim.

The hardworking parents who took on extra shifts to pay the ticket price for admission certainly would appreciate learning of such “compassion.” Disney’s shareholders would likely revolt, slamming the board members who so carelessly voted to open park doors.

And wait until you saw the new lines of young parents desperately trying to get their children into Disney to take advantage of such a unique opportunity.

But this isn’t a low-stakes issue involving theme parks and line-skippers. This is a dangerous national security issue that’s putting our country at risk and setting a dangerous precedent for our nation.

For decades, the establishment immigration lobby has been insisting Americans give so-called “Dreamers” a lifetime pass to America: citizenship. Don’t worry, they say. These “Dreamers” will enhance the American experience.

At the same time, the open borders club turns a blind eye to the pitiful state of our immigration system, demanding that immigrants who skip the box office be welcomed into our arms.

Those same elites never mention the millions of law-abiding and hardworking immigrants who enter our country legally—some after waiting over a decade to join this place we call home—and are getting delayed and punished for following the law.

They certainly never discuss the thousands of felons shielded from deportation by so-called “prosecutorial discretion” (translation: ignoring congressionally-passed law).

And the American citizens who refuse to reward the line-skippers and call for enforcement of our current laws first? Attacks of racism, bigotry, and, yes, anti-Americanism.

What good is having a price for park admission or a national immigration policy if they are not enforced? Why subject any potential immigrant to vigorous background checks if other immigrants can walk right across our border, wait a couple of years, and unlock the golden ticket: American citizenship?

Americans know DACA is nothing more than a cheap ploy for amnesty, a sort of citizenship-for-votes scheme that could only be hatched in the darkest corners of Washington, D.C., by liberal elites.

The forgotten men and women of America have a message to the backroom wheelers and dealers in Washington feverishly looking for a so-called permanent “DACA fix” in 2018: Do your job. Secure our border. Keep America a place that rewards those who work hard and come here legally.

And most importantly: Do not reward law-breakers. Anything less would be, well, goofy.

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Senators Schumer and McCain call for the banning of knives, clubs, feet and fists after shocking FBI report on ‘aggravated assaults’

March 3, 2018/in Commentary, Satire/by Dr. Rich Swier

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) after reviewing the most recent FBI data showing that knives, clubs, fists and feet account for 75.8% of the weapons used during “aggravated assaults” have decided to introduce legislation to fix this national crisis.

The proposed legislation will require a mandatory background check for anyone possessing one or more of these mass assault (MA) weapons, not to be confused with the abbreviation for the state of Massachusetts. The Schumer/McCain Aggravated Assault Prevention Act (SMAAPA) has bipartisan support in the U.S. Senate.

The FBI report has spawned the #FeetMeToo #FistMeToo #KnifeMeToo and #ClubMeToo movements.

A spokesperson for Senators Schumer and McCain released the following statement:

The Senators wants to make America safe again. After reviewing the latest FBI data Senators Schumer, McCain and the Democratic caucus have decided that swift action must be taken to keep knives, clubs, feet and fists out of the hands of law abiding citizens, no pun intended.

To achieve the goal of “zero aggravated assaults” in the year 2525, not to be confused with the song of the same name, all American citizens, legal and illegal, must register all knives, clubs, fists and feet in their household with the local police. The legislation provides for a national database listing knives, clubs, feet and fists be fully funded, using money intended for the border wall. Anyone seen using a knife, club, their feet or fists in an aggressive manner, like during an NFL football game, will be reported by law enforcement and added to the federal database.

A background check will be mandated before anyone is allowed to own or posses a knife, a club, two hands and two feet. When a child is born, effective on the date of the passage of this important legislation, hands and feet will have a serial number tattooed on the child’s hands and feet and those numbers placed into the federal database.

Members of the National Rifle Association, Trump supporters and all registered Republicans, with the exception of John McCain, will be the first required to turn in their mass assault (MA) weapons, designated MA-15s, into local law enforcement.

Home Depot and Lowe’s Home Improvement/Hardware Stores have stated that when the legislation is passed all club like items will be removed from their stores nationwide. Items include, but are not limited to, 2’x4′ lumber, hammers, sledge hammers and ax handles.

Additionally, podiatrists and orthopedic hand specialists will be required to register the extremities of every person in the United States and place them in the national database. Anyone caught making a fist, like in a boxing match, will be immediately arrested for microaggression.

California and New York have already banned the use of knives in restaurants by staff and customers as part of their zero tolerance in accordance with their states’ anti-aggravated assault program.

Under the Schumer/McCain Aggravated Assault Prevention Act, the National Tattoo Association will be awarded a multi-billion dollar contract to tattoo serial numbers on the hands and feet of an estimated 63 million citizens who elected Donald Trump president.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is lobbying against having fists included in the legislation. “The raised black fist has become a symbol of black protest in America” noted NAACP Board Chairman Leon W. Russell. A spokesperson for the NAACP at a press conference stated:

Blacks have been raising their fists as a symbol of resistant against white oppression. Hands, feet and fists make up only 26.3% of aggravated assaults. The outlawing of fists is racist. This action by two white Senators is unacceptable. Blacks have a civil right to use their fists.

We ask that lilly white Senators Schumer and McCain recognize that black and fists are synonymous. Only white fists should be outlawed!

President Trump after seeing a draft of the legislation tweeted:

From my cold dead hands and feet. No pun intended.

Zager and Evans sing their 1969 hit “In The Year 2525”:

EDITORS NOTE: This column is political satire.

Sabo Strikes Again: Three Billboards Outside Hollywood, California

March 3, 2018/in Commentary, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by The Daily Caller

A conservative artist that goes by the name of Sabo hijacked three billboards in Hollywood on Wednesday to put up signs calling out the industry’s sexual harassment scandals.

With a nod to the Oscar nominated film “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri,” the artist erected three giant signs to cover the existing ads. The large red and black overlays went after people in the entertainment industry who allegedly knew and did nothing about the alleged sexual misconduct of Harvey Weinstein and others, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

“And the Oscar for biggest pedophile goes to…” a screenshot of one of the signs read.

In a second post, Sabo tweeted a screen shot of another billboard that read, “We all knew and still no arrests.”

And finally a third screenshot of his artwork read, “Name names on stage or shut the hell up!”

Last month, posters featuring Harvey Weinstein and Seth Myers with the words “We All Knew” appeared in Hollywood ahead of the Golden Globes. The artist talked about the posters and why he did it in a Vice interview.

“This is awards season,” Sabo explained. “There’s no reason for me not to hit the Oscars and the Grammys and all those other fucking award shows. It’s basically them just patting themselves on the back.”

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Problematic Women: Instagram Sisters Outed for Controversial Mother, Pamela Geller

March 2, 2018/in Commentary, Policy, Politics/by The Daily Signal

#ProblematicWomen: Episode 34

Instagram stars’ show canceled after reporters unearthed their identity. Their mom’s a controversial figure who’s been the subject of terrorist plots. Was concealing their relationship to their mom deceitful or understandable? We discuss on this week’s episode of “Problematic Women.” And, Jennifer Lawrence has a surprising critique of Hillary Clinton, Monica Lewinsky discusses #MeToo, and we sit down with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the highest-ranking woman in Congress.

Posted by The Daily Signal on Thursday, March 1, 2018

On Wednesday, The Daily Beast published an article titled “The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller,” highlighting the great lengths four sisters went to avoid disclosing their relationship to their mother, who is a controversial political commentator and activist.

“The Instagram-famous family have gone to great lengths to conceal the identity of their Islamophobic mother,” wrote The Daily Beast. “[Their mother is an] anti-Islam activist, hate-monger, and diehard Trump supporter.”

The Daily Beast failed to mention that Geller has been the subject of multiple terrorist plots. In 2015, for example, CNN reported Islamist extremists plotted to behead Geller, raising the possibility that the sisters—Claudia, Jackie, Olivia, and Margo Oshry—may have gone to “great lengths” to conceal their identities, in part, for security reasons.

After being outed, the sisters apologized to fans for controversial tweets The Daily Beast dug up from back in 2012 and 2014. Claudia Oshry said her and her sisters’ views “are separate from” their mothers.

“We want to be clear to our audience and fans that our political and cultural beliefs are not anti-Muslim or anti-anyone,” she said. “Our views are separate from our mother’s. Being raised by a single parent, we were taught to make our own choices based on our personal beliefs. We are inspired to think for ourselves and we do. We do not condone discrimination or racist beliefs of any kind.”

But that didn’t stop tech platform Oath from canceling their show, raising the question of whether children (who are now adults) should be held responsible for their parents’ political views, and whether individuals should be held responsible for public statements they made when in their teen years. We discuss these questions and more in this week’s edition of “Problematic Women,” co-hosted with Bre Payton of The Federalist.

We also address the Mona Charen controversy at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Jennifer Lawrence’s surprising critique of Hillary Clinton, and speak with Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the highest-ranking woman in Congress.

Watch in the video above, or listen in the podcast below.

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Parkland Kids: The Return of the Grieving Activist

March 1, 2018/in Commentary, Policy, Politics, Regulation/by Selwyn Duke

According to many gun-control advocates, 18-year-olds are too immature to handle guns — but are mature enough to advise us on gun policy. Thus we’re told we must “listen to the voices” of the young Parkland shooting survivors. Not only that, we’re not to question or oppose them because they’re young, they’re survivors and, by golly, because it’s absolutely devastating to the anti-gun agenda!

There’s something truly reprehensible about this situation, and it’s not conservatives criticizing the positions of activist Parkland students such as David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez. It’s that liberals are using the students as human props and human shields, letting them throw the punches and then condemning the assailed if they dare defend themselves.

Well, sorry, but as I wrote years ago in “The Grieving Activist,” if you want to grieve, grieve. If you want to play politics, play politics.

But my sympathy for grieving ends when the use of grief as a political battering ram begins.

Now, putting minors on the front lines is not at all unprecedented. The youngest U.S. naval captain was 12-year-old David Farragut, and the British would often have upper-class, preteen boy officers aboard their warships, as accurately portrayed in the film Master and Commander. But could you imagine if, after firing some salvos at French vessels and receiving a proportionate response, a British captain bellowed, “What do you think you’re doing?! There are kids aboard this ship!” Ridiculous.

But no more ridiculous than doing likewise in our political campaigns — and, mind you, “campaign” is a military term, applied here because at issue is political warfare. So put kids on the front lines if you wish, as the Nazis did in WWII’s waning days, but know that they’re taking flak because you placed them in harm’s way.

Of course, this all is very calculated. We know that CNN staged a town-hall affair, cherry-picking the attendees and controlling the questions. We know that, as pro-Second Amendment Parkland survivor Brandon Minoff related, the media are ignoring the voices of the pro-gun Parkland kids (so much for “listening to the children”). Nonetheless, while this anti-gun operation may or may not have George Soros’ fingerprints all over it, as Sheriff David Clarke suggested, it’s also no doubt true that the student activists are “wildly motivated,” as CNN’s Alisyn Camerota put it in response to him.

Yet there’s an obvious question here: Is it wise to have recently traumatized people advising on policy? Would we let someone whose dog was just killed by a neighbor help determine punishment for cruelty to animals? “Passion governs, and she never governs wisely,” as Ben Franklin warned.

Additionally, we’re a pretty immature civilization if we look to kids for policy advice. There’s a reason why societies might traditionally have been governed by a council of (hopefully) wise elders: Teen boys may sometimes have utility in warfare, but adolescent angst doesn’t make for sober heads. Moreover, mainstream media love publishing articles about the impulsive “teen brain”; now they say we should bow before these brains’ latest impulses. (Note: I instinctively knew the “teen brain” thesis was nonsense, as this article explains, but immaturity is nonetheless a factor.)

Yet something else must be said about these “wildly motivated” teens. To paraphrase late comedian Rodney Dangerfield, “They really care — about what I have no idea!”

It’s fashionable to beatify survivors. Endure a tragedy, and you’re suddenly a sainted soul whose motives are beyond reproach. But while I’m sure many Parkland students are what we’d call, practically speaking, “good people,” I’m also sure about their character as a group.

They’re just people.

Their number includes the good, the bad and the ugly. Heck, we’re only talking about this issue right now because of a Parkland teen who attended Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School (MSDHS) and who is not at all a good person (I won’t give him publicity by using his name).

Yet the mainstream media exalt Parkland students as fonts of wisdom — while simultaneously infantilizing them, saying they can condemn but not be criticized, offend but not be offended. I’m different: realistic. I’m thus going to exercise some logic here, even though it’s wholly out of fashion.

With approximately 3000 Parkland teen survivors, what’s the probability that they’re all “good people”? Oh, I’m sure a handful will go on to do great things and that most of the others will do good but average things. Then there are the rest. Whom might they include?

Well, without naming names, is it inconceivable that a few of the 3000 might be Machiavellian enough to realize that the shooting’s aftermath is an opportunity for fame and possibly wealth and career-building? This doesn’t mean they don’t have genuine anti-gun passions — they may, as people’s actions are often driven by multiple motivations, some noble and some ignoble — only that the primary impetus may be a more self-serving one.

And, actually, out of 3000 students, it’s inconceivable that there wouldn’t be two or three of this mold. Teens ain’t potted plants — they can be manipulative as well as meritorious. Just ask “clock boy” Ahmed Mohamed about that.

The Left can huff and puff about these observations, but it draws distinctions among gun-crime survivors, too. House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) was seriously wounded by a left-wing activist in last year’s congressional baseball shooting, and Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, also a Republican, survived the 1999 Columbine High School shooting. But I don’t hear them trumpeted as voices “we must listen to.” Why? It could be what they have in common with the ignored Parkland pro-Second Amendment kids.

The latter, however, are just a few of the young voices about which leftists couldn’t care less. Other examples are the Boy Scouts booed at the 2000 Democratic National Convention, the six-year-old lad in a 2012 anti-Obama video whom liberals wanted dead, and the 650,000 babies they actually do manage to kill annually via prenatal infanticide. And this does reflect the culture-of-death mentality: Liberals want to hear young voices — until they become inconvenient. At that point their freedom of speech can be aborted.

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Closing Mental Institutions Made Us More Vulnerable to Mass Shootings

February 28, 2018/in Commentary, Culture War, Healthcare, Policy, Politics, Religion, Science/by The Daily Signal

A liberal-created failure that goes entirely ignored is the left’s harmful agenda for society’s most vulnerable people—the mentally ill.

Eastern State Hospital, built in 1773 in Williamsburg, Virginia, was the first public hospital in America for the care and treatment of the mentally ill. Many more followed. Much of the motivation to build more mental institutions was to provide a remedy for the maltreatment of mentally ill people in our prisons.

According to professor William Gronfein at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, by 1955 there were nearly 560,000 patients housed in state mental institutions across the nation. By 1977, the population of mental institutions had dropped to about 160,000 patients.

Starting in the 1970s, advocates for closing mental hospitals argued that because of the availability of new psychotropic drugs, people with mental illness could live among the rest of the population in an unrestrained natural setting.

According to a 2013 Wall Street Journal article by Dr. E. Fuller Torrey, founder of the Treatment Advocacy Center, titled “Fifty Years of Failing America’s Mentally Ill,” shutting down mental hospitals didn’t turn out the way advocates promised.

Several studies summarized by the Treatment Advocacy Center show that untreated mentally ill are responsible for 10 percent of homicides (and a higher percentage of the mass killings). They are 20 percent of jail and prison inmates and more than 30 percent of the homeless.

We often encounter these severely mentally ill individuals camped out in libraries, parks, hospital emergency rooms, and train stations, and sleeping in cardboard boxes. They annoy passersby with their sometimes intimidating panhandling.

The disgusting quality of life of many of the mentally ill makes a mockery of the lofty predictions made by the advocates of shutting down mental institutions and transferring their function to community mental health centers, or CMHCs.

Torrey writes:

The evidence is overwhelming that this federal experiment has failed, as seen most recently in the mass shootings by mentally ill individuals in Newtown, Conn., Aurora, Colo., and Tucson, Ariz. It is time for the federal government to get out of this business and return the responsibility, and funds, to the states.

Getting the federal government out of the mental health business may be easier said than done.

A 1999 Supreme Court ruling in the case of Olmstead v. L.C. held that under the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals with mental disabilities have the right to live in an integrated community setting rather than in institutions.

The Department of Justice defined an integrated setting as one “that enables individuals with disabilities to interact with non-disabled persons to the fullest extent possible.” Though some mentally ill people may have benefited from this ruling, many others were harmed—not to mention the public, which must put up with the behavior of the mentally ill.

Torrey says it has now become politically correct to claim that this federal program failed because not enough centers were funded and not enough money was spent. But that’s not true. Torrey says:

Altogether, the annual total public funds for the support and treatment of mentally ill individuals is now more than $140 billion. The equivalent expenditure in 1963 when President John F. Kennedy proposed the [community mental health centers] program was $1 billion, or about $10 billion in today’s dollars. Even allowing for the increase in U.S. population, what we are getting for this 14-fold increase in spending is a disgrace.

The dollar cost of this liberal vision of deinstitutionalization of mentally ill people is a relatively small part of the burden placed on society.

Many innocent people have been assaulted, robbed, and murdered by mentally ill people. Businesspeople and their customers have had to cope with the nuisance created by the mentally ill.

The police response to misbehavior and crime committed by the mentally ill is to arrest them. Thus, they are put in jeopardy of mistreatment by hardened criminals in the nation’s jails and prisons.

Worst of all is the fact that the liberals who engineered the shutting down of mental institutions have never been held accountable for their folly.

Commentary By

Walter E. Williams

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University.

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When Help Never Comes

February 28, 2018/in Commentary, Courts & Law, Culture War, Policy, Politics, Waste, Fraud and Abuse/by Beverly Newman

If you are still wondering how a 19-year-old young man was able to murder 17 students and faculty in his former Florida high school, how he simply and safely left campus on foot for a repast after his mass murders were accomplished, and how his years of dire distress warnings were ignored by every system in place to prevent tragedies, then you are surely not acquainted with Florida’s high-risk, highly-profitable guardianship system, wherein elders, at the opposite end of the age spectrum as the murder suspect, are warehoused until the ends of their lives and their distress signs are routinely ignored by the systems intended to protect them.

Just suppose you are a family member attempting to protect your elderly loved one, and you call the elder abuse hotline, just as concerned persons had called hotlines and authorities to report the teenage mass murder suspect well before he struck fatal blows to dozens of families. This scenario is not hypothetical to thousands of Florida families who have for dozens of years made fruitless communications to hotlines and multiple agencies, including the Florida Department of Elder Affairs, the local police, the Governor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the local sheriff, the FBI, and their associated hotlines. All too often, when we report elder abuse, our beloved relatives are left unprotected from abuse, and we whistleblowers are frequently disregarded or targeted as troublemakers.

Although the paperwork from Adult Protective Services states that “Florida law requires DCF [Department of Children and Families] to investigate all reports alleging abuse, neglect, [and] exploitation … [and a DCF investigator] will visit the vulnerable adult within 24 hours of receiving the report,” Florida law is commonly disobeyed by those paid to protect adults at risk.

When my husband and I contacted Adult Protective Services over the course of many months in 2008 and 2009 reporting orally and in writing that our Dad, Al Katz, 89 years old, was being severely abused and neglected by his caretakers, over whom we had no legal control, our reports were routinely refused by the hotline in-take. During that exact same period of time, medical records available to APS but not to us, show that Al Katz was hospitalized and/or received emergency medical treatments for: anxiety; post traumatic stress disorder; acute bronchitis; oversedation; exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder; abrasion to head, swelling, and bleeding; swelling and laceration above eye; acute head injury; acute cervical spine sprain; acute abrasions and contusion around left eye; skull fracture; intracranial hemorrhage; poisoning; scalp laceration; staph urinary tract infection; “urine yellow with clots”; and numerous other medical distress warning signs of elder abuse; yet, the abusers were not removed from Dad’s home by authorities for nearly one year after my elder abuse reports began, and then Dad was put into guardianship, in which further abuse ensued.

In September 2009, Manatee County, Florida, Judges Janette Dunnigan and Paul Logan held guardianship hearings without the presence of Al Katz or any of his family members, during which professional guardians (who are not required to be licensed by the State of Florida) were appointed to assume total control – financial, physical, and medical – over the life of an elder they did not know; while I was not even notified of the hearings.

Within a few days after being put into court-ordered professional guardianship, my Dad was totally isolated from his family and home, locked down in the basement of a city hospital behind electronic metal doors monitored by armed guards. Al Katz, the victim of severe, prolonged elder abuse, had become a Ward of the State of Florida, with fewer rights than a mass murderer; while his abusers remained free on the streets and still are lurking somewhere nearly a decade later.

Within two months, while in court-ordered guardianship, Al Katz’s official designation by his guardians was “IMMINENT DEATH.” During the time Marjorie Ashley Butler and Jonene Eisch had total control over Al Katz’s life, his medical status plummeted as he developed cellulitis, extreme edema, bed sores that lasted for months, a fever of 107 degrees, and sepsis. My petitions filed during this entire time to the court to personally care for my Dad were not granted until he was nearly dead, but G-d spared his dear life for many months to come, when Dad re-learned how to walk, talk, and eat in his own home with me.

Like the school murder victims, most victims of guardianship abuse never have the chance to go home or to re-learn how to walk, talk, and eat. Their pleas to go home are unheard and unheeded like the discounted chilling reports made to authorities about the teenage mass murder suspect before he struck:

It’s just so much and I know he’s going to explode …. I just know I have a clear conscience if he takes off and just starts shooting places up …. It’s alarming to see these pictures [he posts on the Internet] and to know what he’s capable of doing and what could happen … [like] getting into a school and just shooting the place up.

The reports of danger to our elders likewise go unheard and unheeded even after tragedy strikes. It is obvious to families of suffering and of departed victims, young and old, that those responsible for breaking laws that they are paid to enforce or ignoring reports they are paid to thoroughly investigate will never pay in a court of law or through monetary compensation for their crimes and cruelties. It is the victims themselves and their families who pay an infinite price for patterns of malpractice and malfeasance pervasive in the professions intended to protect the vulnerable.

Although scores of persons in authority from social workers to the FBI knew about the suspect’s long dark history of violence and his threats of future violence, especially directed at schools, they paid no heed to the inestimable, irreparable harm he could and would and did do. Did anyone really believe that a long-time at-risk teenage male who ingested gasoline and mutilated his own arms on the Internet was not at great risk of harming himself and others? Social workers and mental health professionals investigating these incidents all gave the suspect a low-risk assessment. When a violent teen boasts on the Internet that he wants to be a “professional school shooter,” who would believe he poses no threat to society, particularly to students trapped inside of a school?

Our nation cannot stand on its abysmal record of neglect of duty and law by those in positions of power. Their doors are shut to us in need; their ears are closed to those in crisis; and their hearts do not give us access to them. We families know pain all too well – the sickening feelings of loss of loved ones stemming from doors and ears and hearts that are vacuum-sealed. How many lives are sacrificed for nothing more than cries and pleas for help that go unheard and unanswered? How many lives? How many lives? We ask you how many lives?

We are told at every turn to rely upon the authorities for protection when their protection may never arrive, and death awaits. As lives are lost and suffering is ceaseless, more children and elders remain in crisis without recourse or resources reachable to them and their loved ones. Our reports are destroyed, discarded, and disregarded. They are dead ends. If you want to hold some accountable for the senseless murders of seventeen on Sweetheart’s Day, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 2018, then first in line must be the recipients of every dead-end report that preceded this preventable mass murder by a man who was reported again and again and again in a long dead-end trail of blood; for dead-end reports cause deaths.

“Lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep,” said Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, whose office received scores of reports for years about the suspect’s dangerous behaviors before the mass murder occurred and whose deputy refused to enter the school while its students were under siege, the school to which he was assigned as the security officer, as dozens died inside.

“Lions don’t care about the opinions of sheep” or about the reports they file. Dead-end reports cause deaths. Bah-h-h-h-h ….

An Open Letter to the Republican Party by a Former Soviet Defense Attorney

February 28, 2018/in Commentary, Elections, Policy, Politics/by Simona Pipko

The November 2018 election will be critical in deciding the future course of the American Republic. The Republican Party has a Golden opportunity to expose the DNC for what it really is by investigating the Obama/Putin Alliance, researched in my books, and the dreadful consequences of it that America faces in 2018.

All troubles we are witnessing today came to us as a result of the Obama/Putin Alliance systematic distraction and destruction of the country:

Robert Mueller’s indictment of 13 Russian trolls is the tip of the iceberg: thousands of the KGB’s political operatives entered American soil due to the Obama/Putin Alliance to interfere and disrupt all strata of our society. We are dealing today with the “ Axis of Evil,” coordinated by Russia.
The growing national debates on guns is part of the Obama/Putin Alliance, yet no one has connected the horrifying issue of attacking our children to the “Axis of Evil,” run by the Russian KGB Government.
We are at war, an asymmetrical war with multiple fronts, and a variety of different shapes, forms, methods, and tricks waged against the American Republic by the Russian Intelligence—Putin plays a global chess-game. To solve our problems and win that war awareness of the enemy is crucial and knowledge of the KGB is imperative. See www.simonapipko1.com
All problems of the FBI and our Intel are derived from the lack of authentic knowledge of our foremost enemy—the Russian KGB Government. The Obama/Putin Alliance has achieved a definite “success” by paralyzing our Law Enforcement and Intel, politicizing both, as a way of transforming our American capitalist economy to a socialist one, openly implemented by Obama. See my columns at www.drrichswier.com/author/spipko/.
Socialist/Communist ideology failed in the 20th century; people now know that it is not working. The Russian KGB Government is changing their tune, fooling and deceiving you by inventing Crony Capitalism. In fact, Russia imitating the German regime of 1933 and establishing the political ideology of Soviet Fascism in Russia and spreading it across the world…
While watching the so-called Steele Trump/Dossier document on TV, it did not take me even ten seconds to realize that it was Russian “fallshivka” –a fraud in front of me. Everything in the Dossier exposed the KGB’s imprint: an arrogant manner of presentation, method and character with an aggressive and salacious tone to denigrate President Trump, the Republican Party, and to influence American opinion. It was a vivid picture of the incredible dirt on Trump, a typical Stalin legacy of demonizing and attacking the opposition leader, used by the KGB, while implementing the ideology of Soviet Fascism around the globe. See my definitions of Soviet Fascism on p. 159, What is Happening to America? The Hidden Truth of Global Destruction, Xlibris, 2012
The main KGB’s modus operandi in implementing the ideology of Soviet fascism is a very primitive one, to blame the opposition for the crime they themselves committed. It is the pot calling the kettle black. Just watch the latest example of how the Deep State of the Alliance is accusing the NRA in the Valentine shooting in Florida. It is a typical style of the KGB, (currently FSB).

For the last twenty-five years I have been warning America about Soviet Fascism in all my books and numerous articles. But politicized Intel and the FBI are suppressing information about my writings—the Obama/Putin Alliance doesn’t want the world to know the Truth.

Today, the Alliance is fabricating the case against Trump to cover-up the treason committed by the Democrats in cahoots with the Russian KGB Government.

Sincerely,

Simona Pipko
A former Soviet Attorney
February 28, 2018